Our America
Subtitle: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: August 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780822320647
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; USA; United States - General; American Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Popular Culture - General
First sentence: THE REVEREND SHEGOG'S Easter sermon in the fourth chapter of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) repeats and interlaces that novel's twinned fantasies about language and the family-about language, that the word can be made flesh and, about family, that endogamy can supplant exogamy-by invoking the Eucharistic miracle that turns the sign of Christ's blood into the blood itself and by reimagining a congregation as a collection of blood relations: "Breddren en sistuhn," the Reverend Shegog says, "I got de ricklickshun en de blood of de Lamb."